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Patented Oct. 8, |901. D. F. WATSON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL F. i/VATSON, OF ORONOGO, MISSOURI.

RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 684,327, dated October 8, 1901- Application led November 8, 1900. Serial No. 35,887. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t muy concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL F. WATSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oronogo, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railways, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to elevated railways of the class in which only a single rail is employed; and the primary object of the invention is to provide an improved track-supporting structure in combination with a car adapted to straddle the rail and novel means for maintaining the car at equilibrium.

The construction of the car is such that any excess of weight at one side of the car will be compensated f'or, thus insuring the proper horizontal position of the car upon the track at all times, even though the two sides of the car may be unevenly weighted.

The details and novel features of the invention will be fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of an elevated railway and car embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a detailside elevation of the rails of the track-supporting structure and track and one of the side beams between which the carrying-wheels of the car are supported. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of a portion of the track-rail. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the track structure and car supported thereon. Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse vertical section of the track, the parallel beams between which the carryingwheels are supported, and a portion of the car proper; and Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of a modified form of truck.

The track-supporting structure comprises a series of standards 1, braced laterally by inclined braces 2 and 3. Upon the upper ends of the standards 1 is supported an L beam, comprising two counterpart sections 4 and 5, each formed with parallel flanges 6 and 7 and with a continuous shoulder 8 on its inner surface. The upper ends of the braces 2 and 3 are recessed to receive the lower anges '7 of the sections of the I-beam and are also formed with vertical flanges 9,

latter with horizontal flanges 12, projecting from opposite sides of the rail. The rail is secured between the sections 4 and 5 of the I-beam, the lower edge of said rail resting upon the shoulders 8 and the iianges 12 resting upon the upper anges 6 of the I-beam. The rail is iirmly secured by bolts extending through the sections of the I-beam.

The car consists of an upper section or compartm ent 13 and two lower side compartments 14. The inner walls 15 of the'side compartments 14 are inclined, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and connected by an integral horizontal plate 16, to the under surface of which are firmly secured oppositely-disposed beams 17, form ed with parallel horizontal flanges 18 and 19. The upper flanges 18 of the beam 17 are securely bolted to the connecting-plate 16, and to the under surface of the flanges 19 are secured brackets 20, formed with bearings to support rollers 21, which are normally located above the upper anges 6 of the sections 4 and 5 of the I-beam. The parallel beams 17 are formed with bearings for the axles 22 of the carrying wheels 23, said Wheels being formed with anges 24 to embrace the opposite sides of the tread 11 of the rail.

As shown in Fig. 1, the upper compartment 13 of the car is supported centrally above the wheels23, and the side compartments, ar ranged below the upper compartment 13 and suitably braced thereto, normally counterbalance each other.

The beams v17, which extend throughout the length of the car and carry the rollers 21, serve to brace the car against lateral strain when the weight in either of the side compartments 14 preponderates that of the other sidecompartment.

By the construction of the car above described the weight in the side compartlnents is below the rail, which is the point at which the car is supported, and the rigidity of the car-frame, in connection with the rollers 21, serves to maintain the car in its proper position upon the rail without regard to any uneven distribution of Weight on opposite sides of the rail.

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to maintain the position of the car upon the rail.

In Fig. 6 I have shown the carryii'ig-wheels of the car mounted on a truck 231, with aV cross-bar 25 secured to the beams 0r girders 17. This swiveled truck facilitates rounding curves.

I claiml.. The combination of standards, a trackbeam having flanges and supported on the standards, a rail having a tread and snpported on the beam, a car, parallel beams secured to the under side of the car, an axle extending across the car-beams, a grooved wheel mounted on the axle between the car-beams, brackets secured to the under side of the carbeams and rollers mounted in the brackets in approximately the same plane as the tread and adapted to bear on the flanges of the track-beam.`

2. The combination of standards, a trackbeam having anges and supported on the standards, a rail having a tread and supported on the beam, a car having two side compartments formed with a horizontal connecting-plate and inclined walls leaving unobstructed spaces between the said inclined walls and the said standards and said trackbeam, parallel beams secured to the horizontal plate, an axle extending across the carbeams, a grooved .wheel mounted on the axle between the car-beams, brackets secured to the under side of the car-beams and rollers mounted in the brackets iu approximately the same plane as the tread and adapted to bear on the flanges of the track-beam.

3. The combination with a single-rail track structure comprising a plurality of standards; inclined braces secured thereto; a longitudinally-disposed beam consisting of oppositelyarranged sections formed on their inner surfaces with shoulders and having outwardlyextending flanges; a rail supported between said sections'formed with laterally-extending flanges bearing on the upper surfaces of the beam-sections and havingits lower edge rest-V ing upon the shoulders of the sections; ot aV car comprising an upper compartment and oppositely-arranged side compartments; par- Y allel beams secured to the under side of the central compartment; an axle supported inV bearings formed 1n said beams; a wheel mounted on said axle; verticallydisposed guard -rollers mounted below the parallel beams and adapted to bear uponthe iianges of the oppositely disposed beam sections when the car is tilted laterally.

4. A railway-track comprising standards,

an I-shaped beam composed of two counter- Y' part Sections, each formed with upper andY i vertical fianges secured to the webs of the sections and a rail seating on the shoulders of the sections and formed at its upperedge with a tread, and with horizontal anges resting on the upper fiangesof the sections.

5. The combination of standards, a trackbeam having anges and supported on the standards, a rail having a tread and supported on the beam, a car, parallel beams secured to the under side of the car, axles extending across the car-beams, a cross-bar secured to the beams, a truck in which the axles 'are mounted, secured to the beam, grooved wheels mounted on the axles between the carbeams, brackets secured to the under side of the car-beams and rollers mountedin the brackets in approximately the same plane as the tread and adapted to bear on the ianges of the track-beam.

In testimony whereof I a'ixmy signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

DANIEL F. W'ATSON.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN A. BROOKS, HERBERT D. LAWSON. 

